Short Info Of Mark Zukerberg
Birth place: Dobbs Ferry, New York
Birth name: Mark Elliot Zuckerberg
Birth place: Dobbs Ferry, New York
Birth name: Mark Elliot Zuckerberg
Birth Date: May 14, 1984
Father: Edward Zuckerberg, dentist
Mother: Karen (Kempner) Zuckerberg, psychiatrist
Marriage: Priscilla Chan (May 19, 2012-present)
Children: Maxima, 2015; August, 2017
Education: Attended Harvard University, 2002-2004
Biography Of Mark Zukerberg
Mark Zukerberg is a CEO and Co-founder of most famous social networking website facebook, as well as one of world's youngest billionaires.
Early Life
Mark Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York. He was born into a well-educated family and build an interest in computer programming at an early age.
At the age of 12, Zuckerberg created a messaging program named Zucknet that he implemented as an inter-office communication system for his father's dental practice. Due to his early signs of success, his parents gave him a computer programming tutor while he was still in high school, and they enrolled him in a prep school in New Hampshire. After graduating from prep school, Zuckerberg went at Harvard University.
Success Story
By his second year, he had already built two programs: CourseMatch and FaceMash. Both programs became wildly popular, but the university shut down the latter program after it was deemed to be inappropriate.
Based on his acclaim on campus, Zuckerberg partnered with friends to create a social networking site that allowed Harvard students to connect with each other. The site officially went live in June 2004 under the name "The Facebook," and Zuckerberg ran it out of his dorm room.
After his second year, Zuckerberg dropped out of college to pursue what was now called Facebook, full-time. The website reached one million users by the end of 2004.
By the end of 2005, however, Facebook had opened up to students attending other schools, causing the website to reach 5.5 million users. Since 2005, Facebook received numerous acquisition offers from the likes of Yahoo and Microsoft, has been through legal battles, and has greatly increased its user base.
On Oct. 30, 2019, the company reported that daily active users averaged 1.62 billion for September 2019, an increase of 9% year-over-year. Monthly active users totaled 2.45 billion, an increase of 8% year-over-year. As of Jan. 30, 2020, the company has a market cap of $598 billion. Zuckerberg owns over 375 million Facebook shares and holds 60% of voting rights in the company.
5 Facts About Mark
1. Mark Zuckerberg suffers from red/green colour blindness and can see the colour blue best. That explains the blue logo of Facebook
2. He has a Hungarian sheepdog named Beast, which has a Facebook page with over 2 million fans.
3. The Facebook CEO is fluent in 6 languages as he can read, write and speak French, Hebrew, Latin, ancient Greek, Mandarin, and English. He learned Mandarin so that he could communicate with his wife's family members.
4. In 2016, Mark who comes in the list of one of the most influential people in the world has been ranked on number 10 on the list of Forbes "The World's Most Powerful People".
5. At just 23, Mark became the youngest self-made billionaire in the world! Did you know he is the only person aged under 50 in Forbes list of ten richest people?
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